Auren Vrood timeline...spoilers

[cibet44]

SPOILERS...

I put together this simple Vrood timeline so GMs can keep track of his whereabouts while the PCs progress through the adventures.

Auren Vrood timeline

Day 1 : Auren Vrood kills Professor Petros Lorrimor outside of Harrowstone
Day 17 : *PCs should arrive in Ravengro kicking off events of Haunting of Harrowstone
Day 46 : Auren Vrood meets Caromac in Lepidstadt and takes control of The Beast, steals the Seesage Effigiy, leaves the Count locked in the Mourning Maiden and heads east into the Shudderwood
Day 47 : *PCs should arrive in Lepidstadt kicking off events of Trial of the Beast
Day 50 : Vrood arrives at Ascanor
Day 52 : Vrood meets with Madame Ivanja at the Lodge
Day 60 : Vrood and the Whispering Way attack the Stairs
Day 62 : *PCs should arrive at Ascanor kicking off events of Broken Moon
Day 65 : Vrood and the Whispering Way arrive in Feldgrau
Day 67 : Carrion Crown components leave Feldgrau for Thrushmoor
Day 68+ : *At some point the PCs should meet with Vrood and end his storyline and pick up the Andrissant end game storyline

[Evil Paul]

I think there has to be more than one day between the Beast breaking into the University of Lepidstadt and the PCs arriving. After all, rumours spread down south that the Beast has been captured, the Crooked Kin decide to head to Lepidstadt, the trial is arranged, witnesses are located etc, and the PCs have to make their way from Ravengro to Lepidstadt (100 miles). It could even be several weeks after the event.

Yes, it seems very unlikely that the Count would survive that long in the misery idol (the Mourning Maiden is the device in Harrowstone). Even a few days (length of the trial) in that device with no food or water would kill him. In my version of events, Auren Vrood left some Whispering Way cultists behind to torture Caromarc and harry the PCs... I think this makes more sense and gives the PCs a Whispering Way fight to remind them who the real villains are.

[cibet44]

Evil Paul wrote:

I think there has to be more than one day between the Beast breaking into the University of Lepidstadt and the PCs arriving. After all, rumours spread down south that the Beast has been captured, the Crooked Kin decide to head to Lepidstadt, the trial is arranged, witnesses are located etc, and the PCs have to make their way from Ravengro to Lepidstadt (100 miles). It could even be several weeks after the event.

Yes, it seems very unlikely that the Count would survive that long in the misery idol (the Mourning Maiden is the device in Harrowstone). Even a few days (length of the trial) in that device with no food or water would kill him. In my version of events, Auren Vrood left some Whispering Way cultists behind to torture Caromarc and harry the PCs... I think this makes more sense and gives the PCs a Whispering Way fight to remind them who the real villains are.

Maybe. But no way could the Count survive in that thing too long. It seems pretty clear to me that the beast was immediately apprehended after he was forced to break into the University and the trial began pretty quickly thereafter. I would not keep the Count trapped for more than 4 or 5 days. After that it becomes pretty goofy for the PCs to find him alive. If you figure the trial has to last 3 days it doesn't give much breathing room.

Either way, the important part is Vrood leaves as soon as he gets the effigy.

[Gruffling]

As a sidenote to the Caromarc situation, his Homonuculus is supposed to be keeping him alive with bugs and handfuls of rainwater

[cibet44]

Gruffling wrote:

As a sidenote to the Caromarc situation, his Homonuculus is supposed to be keeping him alive with bugs and handfuls of rainwater

Yup. That, to me, is what gets him to about 5 days. Without the Homonuculus I don't think he would make it that long without water and trapped inside the idol.

I'm sure being inside the idol is very uncomfortable (no sleep), hot, and maddening. When you combine all this with a total lack of water I doubt he would make it 3 days without the Homonuculus. It's one thing to be able to sleep and move around and whatnot yet still survive for 3 or 4 days without water but in his situation he'd be a goner pretty quickly.

[Stewart Perkins]

I would love a timeline like this for pretty much the whole thing... I think it'd be neat to have a good timeline that says when all the stuffs supposed to happen and roughly when the adventures start and such :P Awesome work